Katherine Parr Tudor Family Portrait. She was also in love with thomas seymour the brother of henry s third queen jane. Sitter associated with 11 portraits henry viii s sixth and last wife was a learned and pious woman who had a moderating influence on the ageing king katherine showed great kindness to the king s children by his earlier marriages mary elizabeth and edward and tried to diminish religious persecution.
And his website some grey matter this portrait owned by the lord hastings and now at seaton delaval in northumberland is a seventeenth century copy of a sixteenth century original formerly in the royal collection but lost in the dispersals of 1651 52. See more ideas about tudor history king henry viii tudor era. With four husbands she is the most married.
Sitter associated with 11 portraits henry viii s sixth and last wife was a learned and pious woman who had a moderating influence on the ageing king katherine showed great kindness to the king s children by his earlier marriages mary elizabeth and edward and tried to diminish religious persecution.
She was already twice widowed and childless when they wed in 1543. Katherine parr facts information biography portraits katharine parr was the sixth and last wife of king henry viii destined to outlive the mercurial ruler. When in 1544 the king led a military expedition to france he appointed katherine as regent general and she presided to the displeasure of some over the regency council and ruled in the king s name. And his website some grey matter this portrait owned by the lord hastings and now at seaton delaval in northumberland is a seventeenth century copy of a sixteenth century original formerly in the royal collection but lost in the dispersals of 1651 52.